The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-03-03
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TElmediateiy around the Scott circle.
mo OF The most fashionable localities in
WASHINGTON. SAYS the EeT York li,E:E e
Ernrcss. stand nGrnasr CT handsome
honscs, al! i..:lt within the last five
years, ail belonging 50 prominent nen,
and ur:ou whose occupant. disaster has
fallen so invar:Ehiy that i has conc 70
Sc called, nct Scott circle, bat MisfoT-
tnnc circle. I: " ~ il the finest Of Ihose
Oh Sunday uo-R;ng. tha; David T. Nor
gan, CT INC great Ncu York and Len
Don banking hrIn, dis3. People aid:
another misfortune In Misfortune
cfrcle." The first OF tho s;isndic hoUscs
facing the s:H!cc of Gen. Sect; i that Q;
FTcf. GrahS,a Bell. OF telephone fame.
His grest fortune Is considered secure,
IS he sold ont most OF his telephone
stock. His wife Is deaf ri,;,o. ) year
or two ago his children. ci which he
hiss beautiful fcck, we're stricken with
scarlet feyer. After being very i'll with
il, they began slowly to mend. hut with
every one of tiicrn ti.o hearing became
afflicted, and Il IS doubtful il they ever
recover from It. Thai, VIII the cloud
hanging ever him Ia Tie charges OF
fraud and collision in the telephone
suits 10 be ins.ittTltzl, has fl!ed his
measure CT misfortune. Next IS tl.a red
brick pGl;:eG built by Senator Don CaEsa-
eron, aud in which Mir. b!orgsn i!ei.
Senator Cameron only lived in this
house two or ih:,ae years, bat in thai
tima lis health became wreck, and one
Of his daughters incs viii an iajugy tha:
has iaEed her ever sjaes. Ee soil i. to
sir. Morgan, wins owned it sollt six
months before 3yiEg IN it. Next him
was ex-senator snd Dov Minister Pen
dle:on's besusi:ia hozna. In the skort
t!Tae ne lived there his via lest her two
sisleis by death, his Gauss.i.ter lad 81
accident which it Is supposed will make
her q cripple for life, he lost considesa-
bic Ecney and Lis election Is United
States senator.
Then came the magnificent house Of
ex-Secrctary Robson. When he went
into il he wGs leading member Of con-
gress: powerful al ths navy department,
and eager Tor political power. Within
two yeaxs he has. LOST his seat in the
house, was defeated Is delegate 10 the
national convention, and has sunk into
complete social Us well as political ob-
security. Opposite him fashionable
Clergyman, Mr. Forrest. built an i'm
posing house. He, too, lost his charge,
became financially involved, and final-
" gave up his home 20 be used as al
apartment house. On the corner oppo-
site Senator Cameron, ex-senator Win
dom built house which cost 500, COO.
1t wrecked him politically. 1t was
photographed and the photographs dis
tributed ail over Minnesota as a proof
that he had lost his citizenship, and so
much feeling was excited over it that
!;ie man who was only little while be-
fore secretary OF the treasury. then the
candidate OF his state for the presidency,
was defeated for the senate AID abso-
luteiy retired from puolic lie. Bar.
Blaine also lived in this house the year
OF his defeat for the presidency. Next
to the Window house Mr. Stilson
Hu.chins, editor of the Washington Post,
built. His wife died within q few
months OF moving into the new house.
A little farther up the street lived Hir.
Hutchinson, a rich man. who died 4
year or two ago, leaving behind great
mass OF. property NOW in litigation.
Judge Harlan, OF the Supreme court,
lived still farther up. and this year he
met with sagera reverscs that have swal-
lowed up almost everything he had. So
il viii be seen that nearly every proper
;y-owner Immediately around Scott
circle may say: There's ne lack about
TIE house.